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Create your first business

Create your first business

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Before you start, sign in at feeprime.com. There is nothing else to open: this lesson starts on your Home page.

Everything in FeePrime hangs off a business, so creating one is the first thing that happens.

You may never do this yourself. Usually somebody sets it up once and everybody else just joins. But knowing what gets decided here explains a lot of what you meet later.

The video with this lesson shows the whole setup in about two minutes. The pictures below follow it screen by screen, and the gallery has the same pictures if you would rather flip through them.

The setup, screen by screen

Step 2 of 16. Type the code from your inbox. Copy the six-digit code from the email into Verification Code, then click Verify code.

Step 3 of 16. Tell FeePrime your name. The first time you sign in, type your full name and click Submit.

Step 4 of 16. Start a new business. On your Home page, under My Businesses, click Start A New Business.

Step 5 of 16. Pick your languages. English is already selected. Add every language your customers read, here Français. Each one means typing names once per language, so add only the ones you need.

Step 6 of 16. Name your business in each language. Sunrise Bakery in English, Boulangerie Sunrise in French. You can change the name whenever you like.

Step 9 of 16. Choose what you will use. Switch on the parts of FeePrime your business needs, here Sales, and click Submit.

Step 10 of 16. Select the currencies you take. Every price and payment belongs to one of these, here FCFA. Get the list right before anyone starts entering money.

Step 12 of 16. Add your WhatsApp number. Customers reach you on WhatsApp, so we recommend it. The phone number is optional. Then click Submit.

Step 13 of 16. Add your location. Pick your country, region and city, then click Submit. That finishes the setup.

Step 15 of 16. You already have a website. The link under your business name opens it. Share it with your customers.

Your web address is a public decision

Your business has a name, like “Sunrise Bakery”. Separately it has a web address: a short word in small letters with no spaces, like sunrisebakery.

You can change the name whenever you like. The web address is different, because it becomes part of every public link your business has.

   feeprime.com / sunrisebakery / en / products
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^    ^^
                  web address      language

FeePrime suggests one from your English name. Check it before you click Submit, and pick it the way you would pick a shop sign: short, obvious, and something you will still be happy with in three years. Do not put a year in it, and do not name the one branch you happen to have today.

Treat it as permanent. Changing it later breaks every link anybody has saved or printed.

Get languages and currencies right before anybody starts typing

Languages. Some boxes then ask for the same thing once per language, so a product can be “Bread” in English and “Pain” in French. Add the languages your customers genuinely read. Every extra language is extra typing forever.

Currencies. Every amount you enter later belongs to one of these, so the list has to be right before anybody starts entering money.

These two are the ones people regret. Adding a second language after a thousand products exist means a thousand products with a blank French name. Adding a currency is easier, but changing which currency an existing payment was in is not.

Spend the extra five minutes now.

The first contact is your business, not a customer

The setup asks for one contact, and it is already filled in with your name and email. That is your business’s own contact record: the name, email, WhatsApp number and address your business is reached at. Customers come later, in their own lesson.

It is also the contact your website shows. The WhatsApp number you add here becomes the button customers tap to message you, and your invoices use this contact too.

Try it

On staging.feeprime.com, create a business of your own with a silly web address. When setup finishes, click the link under your business name and look at your new website on your phone.

That loop, change something in the app and see it on the public site, is the basic rhythm of FeePrime.

Check your understanding

1Why does the web address deserve more thought than the business name?1 pt
2Which setting hurts most if you add it after you already have a lot of data?1 pt
3The setup asks for a contact, already filled in with your name and email. Whose contact is it?1 pt